Stokes currently has a clean record but might be found to have breached the ICC Code of Conduct. An audible obscenity is a level-one offence, the least serious.

His outburst might be considered a level-three offence under the article that deals with "threat of assault on another player, player support personnel, umpire or match referee or any other person (including a spectator) during an international match".

The code states: "Without limitation, players or player support personnel will breach this if they do or say anything which would cause the player, player support personnel, umpire, match referee or other person to whom such action was directed to fear harmful or offensive contact, for example and without limitation, threatening to hit the relevant individual while at the same time raising a fist, or threatening to physically harm another player's family."